{"id":1944574,"date":"2023-06-05T16:11:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T20:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/some-republicans-hint-at-reckoning-with-mccarthy-after-debt-ceiling-vote\/"},"modified":"2023-06-05T16:13:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T20:13:34","slug":"some-republicans-hint-at-reckoning-with-mccarthy-after-debt-ceiling-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/some-republicans-hint-at-reckoning-with-mccarthy-after-debt-ceiling-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP suggests holding McCarthy accountable post-debt ceiling vote."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsome-republicans-hint-at-reckoning-with-mccarthy-after-debt-ceiling-vote%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1944574&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The House Freedom Caucus vs. House Republican Leaders<\/h2>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0605\/c00cb698-34cf-415b-ac01-ff8dc2cbb288\/audio.mp3?length=4094829&#038;duration=341\"><\/div>\n<p>The tension between House Republican leaders and the House Freedom Caucus has resurfaced with the passage of the Fiscal Responsibility Act on June 1. The law resulted from negotiations between House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and President Joe Biden over terms for raising the nation\u2019s $31.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-reject-matched-spending-cuts-setting-up-debt-ceiling-showdown-with-gop\/\" title=\"Dems Reject Matched Spending Cuts, Setting Up Debt Ceiling Showdown With GOP\">4 trillion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/even-with-full-control-of-government-democrats-massive-wish-list-is-stalling\/\" title=\"Even With Full Control Of Government, Democrats\u2019 Massive Wish List Is Stalling\">debt ceiling<\/a><\/a>. It passed by a wide margin in both the House and the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>However, the bill angered the most conservative members of the House, and some in the Senate, who believe the speaker sacrificed too much to close the deal. Some members of the House Freedom Caucus mounted a spirited attempt to derail the legislation and nearly succeeded in killing it in committee. Now, a few of those members have hinted at a reckoning with McCarthy for his handling of the negotiations.<\/p>\n<h3>Showdown Looming<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cMore Democrats voted for this bill than Republicans,\u201d Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) told CNN on June 4. \u201cThis bill is a Democrat bill. It is a bill that not only avoided a default but also locked in the progressive gains that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-on-dallas-mavericks-stopping-national-anthem-before-games-its-about-recognizing-u-s-isnt-perfect\/\" title=\"Psaki On Dallas Mavericks Stopping National Anthem Before Games: It\u2019s About Recognizing U.S. Isn\u2019t Perfect\">president made<\/a> in the last two years.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5261972\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/05\/12\/id5261972-Ken_Buck_32339092623-1200x800.jpg\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/05\/12\/id5261972-Ken_Buck_32339092623-1200x800.jpg\" alt=\"Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) speaking at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md.\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<p>Nearly half of the 71 Republicans who voted against the bill are members of the House Freedom Caucus. Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) also aired his grievance over the legislation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[House GOP leadership] were all working together \u2026 and figuring out how to work the best deal that we could,\u201d Roy said in a June 1 radio interview. \u201c[GOP leadership] broke from that, and we need to get back with the program, or we need to kind of have a little bit of a reckoning over it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roy may have been hinting at a vote to vacate the speaker\u2019s chair, which can be called by any member of the House. GOP hard-liners won that right in negotiations with McCarthy during his election as speaker in January.<\/p>\n<p>The narrow Republican majority, 222-213, in the 118th Congress allowed a small group of conservatives to block McCarthy\u2019s election for several days. McCarthy was eventually elected on the 15th ballot after making various concessions to the group.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether a move against McCarthy by his own party was likely, Buck left the possibility open.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know if a motion to vacate is going to happen right away,\u201d Buck said. \u201cA lot of people voted for this because they have other interests that Kevin McCarthy has assured them. But that doesn\u2019t mean that they are satisfied with his leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5305139\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/05\/01\/id5305139-McCarthy-GOP-presser-GettyImages-1258339749-1200x787.jpg\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/05\/01\/id5305139-McCarthy-GOP-presser-GettyImages-1258339749-1200x787.jpg\" alt=\"House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) speaks at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on May 31, 2023.\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<h3>McCarthy Not Worried<\/h3>\n<p>House leaders also took to the airwaves after the passage of the bill, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/some-republicans-hint-at-reckoning-with-mccarthy-after-debt-ceiling-vote\/\" title=\"GOP suggests holding McCarthy accountable post-debt ceiling vote.\">warning hard-liners<\/a> that future attempts to hold up their party\u2019s legislation will not be tolerated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t continue to see challenges like that,\u201d Rep. Garret Graves (R-La.) said during a June 4 interview with CBS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir goals are trying to change the trajectory of spending, transform Washington in a way that\u2019s more responsive, long term, thinking about the next generation and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republican-introduces-austerity-bill-to-kill-zombie-government-programs\/\" title=\"House Republican Introduces Austerity Bill to Kill \u2018Zombie\u2019 Government Programs\">fiscal crisis<\/a> that we\u2019re approaching,\u201d Graves said. \u201cIn this case, I think that leverage was trying to be exercised that really threatened the economy in a large way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Graves worked closely with McCarthy on the debt ceiling, serving as one of two lead negotiators with the White House.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy, when asked about the possibility of a motion to vacate the chair, seemed unperturbed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody has the ability to do what they want. But if you think I\u2019m gonna wake up in the morning and be worried about that, it doesn\u2019t bother me. If someone thinks that, they have the right to do it. Call the vote,\u201d McCarthy told reporters on June 2.<\/p>\n<p>Buck, however, sees McCarthy as weakened by his dependence on Democrats to pass the bill.<\/p>\n<p>In a procedural vote to allow the Fiscal Responsibility Act to be heard by the full House, the speaker relied on 52 Democrats to vote yes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s really unheard of,\u201d Buck said.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Will the House Freedom Caucus follow through with their threat?<\/li>\n<li>Will McCarthy be able to maintain his position as speaker?<\/li>\n<li>What does this mean for the future of the Republican Party?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are just a few of the questions that remain unanswered as the tension between House Republican leaders and the House Freedom Caucus continues to escalate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the House, but the Freedom Caucus opposed it, citing concerns over increased spending and debt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1793,"featured_media":1944575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[18952,10142,6203,4611,3663,28353,4774,4474],"class_list":["post-1944574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-accountable","tag-ceiling","tag-gop","tag-holding","tag-mccarthy","tag-post-debt","tag-suggests","tag-vote"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1793"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1944574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1944575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1944574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1944574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1944574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}